# Magic: Making Big Things Disappear

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magic-making-big-things-disappear/42794
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [November 26, 2000, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magic-making-big-things-disappear/42794 "2000-11-26T23:24:34Z")
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#### Post date: [June 23, 2022, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magic-making-big-things-disappear/42794/89 "2022-06-23T13:00:21Z")

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This thread reminds me of Yet Another Awful David Copperfield “trick”. He makes a train car “disappear”.

[Video](https://youtu.be/D0dRhJ13wxo). Note that the crowd doesn’t look up at the car! Even when it hovers off to the side almost over some people.

Yeah, those folk are clearly not in on it. 😉

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